Saucer



June 23, 1953 A. VALENTI 1 2,642,731

SAUCER Filed June 4, 1951 Jill INVEN TOR. ANTHONY M4LE/VT/ ATTORNEY iPatented June 23, 1953 SAUCER Anthony Valenti, Rochester, N. Y.

Application June 4, 1951, Serial No. 229,693

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to saucers and more particularly to asaucer designed to hold a cup or the like.

One of the principal objections to saucers of known construction is thatwhen a spoon is placed on the saucer, that holds a cup, the spoon islikely to slip down into the center well of the saucer, when a personlifts the cup oil of the saucer to take a drink out of the cup, with theresult that the spoon interferes with the proper seating of the cup backon the saucer and may even cause the cup to be tilted and its contentsspilled.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an improvedsaucer constructed with means for receiving the spoon and for preventingthe spoon from slipping down into the center well of the saucer.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent hereinafter from thespecification and from the recital of the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a saucer made according to one embodiment ofthis invention;

Fig. 2 is a section through the saucer taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1and lookingin the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 looking in the directionof the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a section corresponding to Fig. 3 but showing a spoonpositioned in the spoon-receiving recesses of the saucer; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view corresponding to Fig. 1 but showing the spoonpositioned in the spoonreceiving recesses of thesaucer.

A saucer made according to the present invention may be circular shaped,like that shown in the drawing, or of any other suitable peripheralshape. The saucer shown has a central circular well ll formed on itsupper face adapted to receive the base of a cup which is used with thesaucer.

Offset from the central well II and adjacent the periphery of thesaucer, the saucer is provided on its upper face with two alignedshallow grooves or recesses I2 and I3. These shallow grooves arepreferably identical in shape. One of them is intended to receive thehandle l4 and the other is adapted to receive the bowl of a conventionalspoon so as to prevent the spoon from slipping into the center well llof the saucer, when the cup, which is used with the saucer, is liftedoff of the saucer. This prevents interference of the spoon with thereturn of the cup to the centralwell ll. 1 While the invention has beendescribed in connection with a particular embodiment thereof, it will beunderstood that it is capable of further modification, and thisapplication is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations ofthe invention following, in general, the principles of the invention andincluding such departures from the present disclosure as come withinknown or customary practice in the art to which the invention pertainsand as may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forthand as fall within the scope of the invention or the limits of theappended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

A saucer having a central circular well to receive the base of a cup,said saucer being flared upwardly from said well to its periphery, theflared portion of said saucer having therein two separate,longitudinally-spaced recesses having concavely-curved bottoms, saidrecesses being aligned along a line extending approximately medianly ofthe recesses and offset from said well and constituting a chord of acircle concentric with said well, said recesses being adapted toreceive, respectively, the handle and the bowl of a spoon, said chordlying outside said Well, and said recesses being spaced a distance apartgreater than the diameter of said well and being of generally ellipticalshape and having their major axes extending in a direction generallycircumferential of said well.

ANTHONY VALENTI.

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